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WebComics - Because we're too cheap and too lazy for the real thing

Here is the thread for WebComics and talking about Webcomics. Because let's face it, webcomics are so cheap they're free, and you can read them at work.

Here's a listing of webcomics to get folks started. Submit the link to the official webcomic series and I'll include it here:

- Order of the Stick
- Erfworld
- Looking for Group
- Least I could Do
- PvP
- Megatokyo
- Schlock Mercenary
- Roza - A girl with an explosive blood curse goes on a journey. It's Disney-esque content, cute animal companions, talking animals, and really good art. Updates Mondays.
- The Abominable Charles Christopher By Karl Kerschl, a professional comic book artist (Teen Titans Year One, Wednesday Comics: Flash) A dimwitted Yeti stumbles through a forest with hilarious results. There's a subtle ongoing plot with some intense drama at times. Updates Wednesdays.
- The Meek Mild nudity and violence, the actual story is far less dark then the plot would seem. Has a plant girl put on a quest by her gargantuan salamander grandfather to go to a capital city. The land is recently recovering from a vicious war. But there's also a lot of humor even though the plot is dark. Tu/Th updates.
- Border Crossings Another relatively new webcomic, a surfer girl gets sucked into a parallel reality full of horrible monsters. It takes a lot of inspiration from China Meiville's Bas-Lag fantasy books. Don't expect any elves or dwarves. You get horned otter men and hideous aquatic caterpillars that steal the personalities of creatures they eat. Updates Fridays.
- Evil Diva Another Disney-esque story, this takes place in a modern world where the children of angels and devils have to go to a highschool like everyone else. Poor Diva is a devil but she just wants to be cute and nice. And Mr. Virgil seems like such a nice principal. But wait, he doesn't have a halo or horns, he couldn't be that Virgil could he?
- Guilded Age Fantasy RPG comedy. Good art, excellent world design. Significantly better than Looking For Group. MWF.
- Gunnerkrigg Court Seriously, if you don't know about this already go read it. Neil Gaiman's recommendation is printed on the back of the published volumes. The early art is really rough but it improved drastically. A young girl in a boarding school full of science and magic has adventures. MWF.
- Yon Kuma BEAR WRESTLING. A poor boy gets his parents eaten by a bear so he has no choice but to become a world class bear wrestler to defeat the evil bear that ate his parents.
- FreakAngels Written by modern comic personality Warren Bloody Ellis. Updates with five full color pages every Friday. Psychic children in a flooded postapocalyptic London. Violence and psychic shenanigans occur.
- Johnny Wander Part journal comic, part short stories. You'd never imagine that a twenty something indian guy and his halfasian girlfriend could be so endearingly cute. Probably the best new webcomic of the year.
- The Zombie Hunters A black comedy about young salvagers in a zombie ruled world. Uses Romero zombies with elite zombies like L4D. Strong gore and an eclectic cast make it unique. Updates Mondays.

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SchlockMercenary.com is a really good sci-fi comic which has a new strip every day. It will take a looong time for you to get through the old strips to the new ones but it's worth it as it is funny and quite clever with a funky style of art.

By Karl Kerschl, a professional comic book artist (Teen Titans Year One, Wednesday Comics: Flash)
A dimwitted Yeti stumbles through a forest with hilarious results. There's a subtle ongoing plot with some intense drama at times. Updates Wednesdays.

Mild nudity and violence, the actual story is far less dark then the plot would seem. Has a plant girl put on a quest by her gargantuan salamander grandfather to go to a capital city. The land is recently recovering from a vicious war. But there's also a lot of humor even though the plot is dark. Tu/Th updates.

Another relatively new webcomic, a surfer girl gets sucked into a parallel reality full of horrible monsters. It takes a lot of inspiration from China Meiville's Bas-Lag fantasy books. Don't expect any elves or dwarves. You get horned otter men and hideous aquatic caterpillars that steal the personalities of creatures they eat. Updates Fridays.

Another Disney-esque story, this takes place in a modern world where the children of angels and devils have to go to a highschool like everyone else. Poor Diva is a devil but she just wants to be cute and nice. And Mr. Virgil seems like such a nice principal. But wait, he doesn't have a halo or horns, he couldn't be that Virgil could he?

Seriously, if you don't know about this already go read it. Neil Gaiman's recommendation is printed on the back of the published volumes. The early art is really rough but it improved drastically. A young girl in a boarding school full of science and magic has adventures. MWF.

Gunshow by KC Green, who used to do Horribleville, is really damn funny, and currently in the middle of another Anime Club story, the first of which you can read from the beginning here, and which I think is one of best storylines so far.

Shortpacked often has some pretty funny jokes about comics and nerd culture, and even the bits focusing solely on the characters' personal lives have improved over the past year.

70 Seas is pretty decent, though not great. Still, it's one of the few comics about pirates, and it's been improving pretty steadily, and that counts for a lot.

Corey Lewis's Seedless is alright, but I really just read it for Lewis's dynamic, funky art.

Lately I've also been enjoying Hannah Is Not a Boy's Name, wherein a young detective partners with a zombie and solves supernatural crimes, as well as NSFWEffort ComicsNSFW, which is kind of a modern take on the Roger Rabbit conceit of humans and cartoons living together in one world. They both have very good, stylized art, and the writing's pretty good as well, though neither have been going on long enough for me to really get invested in the stories yet.

MSPA has been said to be the only true webcomic. I think it's a valid point to make, very few webcomics actually deliver a story in a way that couldn't be replicated elsewhere.

MSPA on the other hand makes judicious use of animations and music (especially in the latest story Homestuck) and it's oh so good. Wouldn't recommend bothering with any of the adventures besides Problem Sleuth and Homestuck though. Before that he was kind of experimenting.

Now he has vision. I have no idea what that vision is but it's something.

Edit: Shortpacked wins it for "most disappointing webcomic". The guy can be funny, but instead is hell bent on going full steam ahead with awful "storyline" bullshit.

Edit 2: I shouldn't even have to say Dr. McNinja but just in case you're an incorrigible heathen, Dr. McNinja.

ScaryGoRound by John Allison was one of my favorite story-based comics ever, before the truth of MSPA was revealed to me. Allison's follow up project, Bad Machinery, seems to be awesomesauce as well, and he had another series before ScaryGoRound that I've never bothered to read because time.

There are two sides to every story, but so far it looks like LFG was the wronged party.

To be fair, LFG's author is a pile of shit and I call shenanigans on his story. There's a one hundred percent chance of him leaving out the part where he was a rude asshole to the Dragon Con people. He also probably made up the rest of it.

That's the same story his fans have been spamming across the internet. It's pretty much exactly what was posted in D&D by some guy with 1 post to his name (which was that one). The Consumerist isn't exactly the most unbiased website either. I've not once seen them give the other side or do anything other than try to get other people riled up about one-sided and often wild allegations. Yeah sometimes they're in the right and occasionally they do some good, but judging from his fans, his comic and well everything else I've read, he's almost 100% in the wrong and leaving out the part about him being a colossal ass.

SchlockMercenary.com is a really good sci-fi comic which has a new strip every day. It will take a looong time for you to get through the old strips to the new ones but it's worth it as it is funny and quite clever with a funky style of art.

Thanks for the recomendation Solar. I'm already through the first year.